Past event

12 September
12 - 1pm

Yuichiro Tamura: Artist Talk and Scre—ening

12 September.
Free
entry.

Venue: Seminar Room, Block 2, School of Fine Arts

Presented in collaboration with the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Ilam School of Fine Art at the University of Canterbury we are happy to present an artist talk and film screening with Yuichiro Tamura, the 2018 International Artist in Residence at the Govett-Brewster. Yuichiro will discuss his current exhibition Milky Mountain and his practice more broadly.

The work of Yuichiro Tamura is marked by his extensive research into the contexts in which his work is presented. Milky Mountain is informed by a mix of narratives – institutional and personal, public and private – that weave together otherwise unconnected histories and events. These include the memory of the filming of The Last Samurai in New Plymouth; the architectural transformation of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery building, formerly a movie theatre; the biography of Yukio Mishima, who was at various times a novelist, bodybuilder, and samurai; and New Plymouth’s sister-city relationship with Mishima, the Japanese city from which Yukio Mishima took his pen name.

This talk is made possible with the support of the Asia New Zealand Foundation.

Yuichiro Tamura, born in Toyama in 1977. Lives and works in Atami and Kyoto, Japan. BFA in Photography, Nihon University and PhD in Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. Guest researcher for the Institut für Raumexperimente at the Berlin University of the Arts (2013-14).